DotC United
5th Floor, Building 1, High Street Loft, Jiashan Road 508, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
Overview
DotC United Group creates and architects internet platforms to simplify globalization complexities. Their mission is to connect users from different countries and better their lives with state-of-the-art technologies.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 1
Sector focus
- Android
- Internet
- iOS
- Marketing
- Mobile Apps
- Software
Investment portfolio
- NewsDog
Participated · Series C · May 2018
NewsDog is a news-aggregation app that delivers personalized content to Indian users via machine-learning-driven recommendations and a user-submitted "WeMedia" platform. The service covers ten of India’s languages and claims over 50 million users. App Annie ranks NewsDog as the top news app in the Google Play Store in India; Sensor Tower reports 43 million installs and 76% year-on-year download growth in Q1. The company was launched in 2016 by Forrest Chen Yukun and Yi Ma (Chen is a Tsinghua computer science graduate; Yi Ma holds a PhD from Princeton and previously worked at Baidu and Goldman Sachs). NewsDog plans to use new funding to add more languages, deepen its content library and double down on machine learning to improve content matching. It competes with Dailyhunt, Inshorts, NewsPoint and UC News as it pursues further user growth.
Team
Yi Shi
CEO & Founder